1241From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 9 April 1806 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jacob Crowninshield. 9 April 1806, Department of State. “I return the papers respecting the Hazard and also those accompanying Mr. Brook’s case. Mr. Monroe being fully possessed of the sentiments of the Executive on the subject of blockades will afford every due assistance should the course of the appeal in the first case require his intervention. In the meantime the parties concerned...
1242From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 3 July 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To Jacob Crowninshield. 3 July 1805, Department of State. “I have the honor to inform you, in answer to your letter of the 25 ult. [not found] that no information respecting the service of the monition in the case of the Hector, Smith, or any subsequent proceeding respecting it, exists in this Department. Mr. Wm. Lyman, as the Agent for such claims in London, will have it in his power to...
1243From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 17 January 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter respecting Daniel Clark’s case. Should evidence from the Department of State or of the Treasury be material it must be taken under legal forms emanating from the Court, and would, be useless in any other. The certificate to which you allude has been forwarded to Mr. Sanford. In prosecuting the reversal of the judgment given on the invalidity of the bond, the...
1244From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 20 November 1807 (Madison Papers)
I have duly received your letter on the subject of Mr. O. Evan’s application for a patent. As the application is founded on a decision of the Circuit Court at Philadelphia, against the validity of a former patent for the same invention, a compliance with it would admit the invali dity of all the patents issued in the same form since the commencement of the government. Such a principle I did...
1245From James Madison to Jacob Crowninshield, 18 January 1808 (Madison Papers)
Inclosed you will find the papers which you handed to me relative to the case of the American Brig Hector, captured by the Russians, in the Channel of Scio. You will also find enclosed a letter on that subject to Mr. Harris our Consul at Petersburg. It might perhaps be well for Mr. Thorndike, to obtain full proof. 1st. That the Blockade of Smyrna was not known at Marseilles when the Hector...
1246James Madison to A. Crozet, 25 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your letter of the 7th. inst postmarked Octr 16 Columbia and in answering it, have to inform you that provision has already been made for the situation in the University of Virga. for which you offer yourself a Candidate. With respect Draft (DLC) .
1247From James Madison to Ebenezer H. Cummins, 26 December 1820 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. Sir your favor of the 13th. with a copy of the American Edition of Baine’s Hist: of the late war, to which I have given a hasty perusal. The work does not bespeak historical talents of the highest order, but it is a respectable performance; and merited a republication here, by the degree of research & candor appearing on the face of it. That it contains errors, some very gross...
1248James Madison to Caleb Cushing, 9 February 1836 (Madison Papers)
I have received your letter of the 3d. Instant, enclosing a copy of your speech on the right of petition &c; which certainly contains very able and interesting views of the subject. I do not wonder at your difficulty in understanding, the import, of the passage cited from my speech in the first Congress, under the present Constitution, being myself at a loss, for its precise meaning, obscured...
1249James Madison to Caleb Cushing, 28 August 1833 (Madison Papers)
J Madison, with his respects to Mr. Cushing, returns his thanks for the Oration on the last 4th. of July. He has read with particular pleasure, the able & seasonable views which it presents of the Colonization Society. FC (DLC) .
1250From James Madison to George Washington Parke Custis, 2 August 1807 (Madison Papers)
Mr. Madison has received Mr. Custis’s note of the 30th ultimo, with the specimen of fine wool accompanying it. He offers for himself the thanks to which Mr. Custis is entitled, from all his fellow-citizens, for his laudable and encouraging efforts to increase and improve an animal which contributes a material so precious to the independent comfort and prosperity of our country. Mr. Madison...